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Makes me wonder if openai is secretly querying claude for some prompts and that this is why it's down due to spacex's data centers being down.

by qoez 13d ago

delichon 13d ago
They all forward to one guy in a closet who types really fast, and he has a dentist appointment.
- bduffany 13d ago
  Someone please do the math on how fast this guy would have to type, and how his typing speed would physically affect the surrounding environment
  - kxrm 13d ago
    > how his typing speed would physically affect the surrounding environment Tiny sonic booms (whip cracks) resonating throughout a data center in Virgina.
  - Waterluvian 13d ago
    This is a wonderful Minute Physics or What If? idea. I’d love to know the required bandwidth of the keyboard, too. PCI-e keyboard? Or would it have to be mainlined right to the NIC?
    - not_kurt_godel 13d ago
      Some napkin math - total Internet bandwidth is estimated to be 3-4 petabits per second. Let's say 1% of that is inference traffic - 35 terabits - then that's ~4.375 trillion characters per second at 8 bits per character. A single keyboard press might require 2 mJ, so you need roughly 8.75 GW (electricity required for ~9 million homes) of continuous mechanical force to keep pace. This would cause the keyboard to heat up 175 million degrees C per second. Disappointingly, this is not enough to create a black hole but I'm sure Randall Munroe could tell you how the guy's pet T-rexes would be vaporized into previously unknown types of plasma and how satisfyingly whimsical that would be.
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  - jzb 13d ago
    Surely the keyboard switches would start to fail within minutes.
    - chrisBob 13d ago
      The keyboard springs are sooooo weak. It takes forever for them to recover after a press. Our dude would have to grab the key after each character and pull it back up so it can keep up with him.
      - snazz 13d ago
        Capacitive touch keyboard?
- natsucks 13d ago
  is it the guy in Nebraska from the xkcd comic
- testfrequency 13d ago
  Future Show HN Post: “Hi I’m Foobar. I own Grok, Claude, and ChatGPT. It all runs on my Plex server at home. AMA!”
  - mikestorrent 13d ago
    > Sorry it was down, guys, I was bulk transcoding some Buffy
- evereverever 13d ago
  At least it's routine dental work and not an appointment at 2:30.
- mister_mort 13d ago
  It turns out AI was just An Individual.
- christophilus 13d ago
  It's been Fabrice Bellard all along.
johnla 13d ago
And grok was secretly querying ChatGPT? Daisy chain of failures? Like a chain of kids copying the answers of the kid next to them? LOL. Is there an XKCD for that?
- ncr100 13d ago
  That idea is reminiscent of what I understand is the current economic bubble of mutual investment. Am I wrong in my understanding?
wongarsu 13d ago
https://xkcd.com/908/ https://xkcd.com/908/ Turn's out xkcd's black hat was Elon Musk the whole time

Makes me wonder if openai is secretly querying claude for some prompts and that this is why it's down due to spacex's data centers being down.

by qoez 13d ago

Makes me wonder if openai is secretly querying claude for some prompts and that this is why it's down due to spacex's data centers being down.

delichon 13d ago

They all forward to one guy in a closet who types really fast, and he has a dentist appointment.

bduffany 13d ago
Someone please do the math on how fast this guy would have to type, and how his typing speed would physically affect the surrounding environment
- kxrm 13d ago
  > how his typing speed would physically affect the surrounding environment Tiny sonic booms (whip cracks) resonating throughout a data center in Virgina.
- Waterluvian 13d ago
  This is a wonderful Minute Physics or What If? idea. I’d love to know the required bandwidth of the keyboard, too. PCI-e keyboard? Or would it have to be mainlined right to the NIC?
  - not_kurt_godel 13d ago
    Some napkin math - total Internet bandwidth is estimated to be 3-4 petabits per second. Let's say 1% of that is inference traffic - 35 terabits - then that's ~4.375 trillion characters per second at 8 bits per character. A single keyboard press might require 2 mJ, so you need roughly 8.75 GW (electricity required for ~9 million homes) of continuous mechanical force to keep pace. This would cause the keyboard to heat up 175 million degrees C per second. Disappointingly, this is not enough to create a black hole but I'm sure Randall Munroe could tell you how the guy's pet T-rexes would be vaporized into previously unknown types of plasma and how satisfyingly whimsical that would be.
    - deleted 13d ago
      [deleted]
- jzb 13d ago
  Surely the keyboard switches would start to fail within minutes.
  - chrisBob 13d ago
    The keyboard springs are sooooo weak. It takes forever for them to recover after a press. Our dude would have to grab the key after each character and pull it back up so it can keep up with him.
    - snazz 13d ago
      Capacitive touch keyboard?
natsucks 13d ago
is it the guy in Nebraska from the xkcd comic
testfrequency 13d ago
Future Show HN Post: “Hi I’m Foobar. I own Grok, Claude, and ChatGPT. It all runs on my Plex server at home. AMA!”
- mikestorrent 13d ago
  > Sorry it was down, guys, I was bulk transcoding some Buffy
evereverever 13d ago
At least it's routine dental work and not an appointment at 2:30.
mister_mort 13d ago
It turns out AI was just An Individual.
christophilus 13d ago
It's been Fabrice Bellard all along.

johnla 13d ago

And grok was secretly querying ChatGPT? Daisy chain of failures? Like a chain of kids copying the answers of the kid next to them? LOL. Is there an XKCD for that?

ncr100 13d ago
That idea is reminiscent of what I understand is the current economic bubble of mutual investment. Am I wrong in my understanding?

wongarsu 13d ago

https://xkcd.com/908/ https://xkcd.com/908/ Turn's out xkcd's black hat was Elon Musk the whole time